* The name of the applicant, the week of their application, and their sponsors.

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* Joseph Edward Martin (Week 1) – No sponsors

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* Sai (Week 2) - 1 sponsor (Danny)

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* Nick Shapiro (Week 1) - 1 sponsor (Miloh)

= Financial Report =

= Financial Report =

* Funds in bank:

* Funds in bank:

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* Noisetor (See the bulletpoints at the bottom of http://noisetor.net/finances/#summary):

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* We did not discuss [[Noisetor]] at tonight's meeting.

= Consensus items =

= Consensus items =

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= Discussion Notes =

= Discussion Notes =

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* [[User:Malaclyps|Danny]]: Cory Doctorow has offered to auction the name a character in one of his future novels for Noisebridge!

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* We had '''lots''' of discussion about ideas for revamping the Noisebridge front page, including possibly having Noisebridge.net direct users to an HTML page rather than the Wiki. Lots of opinions were exchanged regarding the flexibility and maintainability of a MediaWiki splash page versus an HTML/CSS/JS splash page. A mailing list would be very useful to coordinate efforts and solicit opinions and necessities.

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* [[User:Malaclyps|Danny]] has the power to create new mailing lists, so if you are ever unable to get a new mailing list created via rack, contact him.

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* Miloh says to smite Andi if you are unable to get a mailing list created. (Andi has blue hair! and refuses to give others access)

Short announcements and events

Announcements

Someone was seeking assistance or feedback on something... :S

Martin: Burton High School physics students visited Noisebridge today! It was really exciting. We had several stations, Jill from the SF Chronicle was here to report, and their photographer was happy. Thank you everyone!

Taylor: I want to take music from my computer and turn into FM (Miloh responds: use Raspberry Pi!)

Danny: Phil Lapsely (who presented at 5mof, co-invented the Usenet protocol nttp, and wrote Exploding The Phone about phreaking) will be speaking this Friday, 6:30pm at Noisebridge!

Danny: I will request a new mailing list, event-handlers@lists.noisebridge.net, for those interested in helping coordinate and run events at Noisebridge.

New Events

James: May 18th Maker Faire After-Party!

James: Juggling with Judith on Saturday mornings, 10:15am to 12:10pm!

Old Events

As the first meeting of the month, we went through the Noisebridge Events calendar and deprecated the followinge events:

WED 20:00 - 22:00 ZinesFromOuterSpace - A biweekly (once every 2 weeks or twice a month) meetup for zinesters / printing hackers / DIY publishers, and brainstorming session for the next chapter of ZiP. Next meeting is 1/30/13, followed by another in mid-Feb (TBA).

Consensus items

Discussion Notes

Danny: Cory Doctorow has offered to auction the name a character in one of his future novels for Noisebridge!

We had lots of discussion about ideas for revamping the Noisebridge front page, including possibly having Noisebridge.net direct users to an HTML page rather than the Wiki. Lots of opinions were exchanged regarding the flexibility and maintainability of a MediaWiki splash page versus an HTML/CSS/JS splash page. A mailing list would be very useful to coordinate efforts and solicit opinions and necessities.

Danny has the power to create new mailing lists, so if you are ever unable to get a new mailing list created via rack, contact him.

Miloh says to smite Andi if you are unable to get a mailing list created. (Andi has blue hair! and refuses to give others access)